2.5" 80GB Hitachi Travelstar will only format in exFAT.

[jodhas]

I have a 80GB Hitachi Travelstar (Model: IC25N080ATMR04-0) IDE drive I pulled from my old Macbook that belonged to a friend. I put it inside a usb enclosure. The Windows recognizes the drive and says that I need to format. However, I can't format in NTFS, only in exFAT.

Even at that, when I try to move a file into the drive, it says
"an error has occurred. The destination you have specified does not exist. It might be an offline network location or an empty CD or DVD drive. Check the location and try again."

I am completely ignorant to Macbook and its formats. Am I doing something wrong?

Can someone point me in the right direction!

Thanks!

 

[ZipSpeed]

Go to Computer Management under the Administrative Tool folder (Google how to make this folder appear if you don't have it in your programs list in your start menu). Under Disk Management, try removing the partition and then recreate it again.

 

[corkyg]

Yeah - you have to totally remove the Mac partition and format. A few years ago, it would have been a job for FDISK. You need to really start the drive over and create an active PC partition to replace the Mac one. Then your should be able to format it NTFS.

 

[jodhas]

I did go into the disk management got rid of the whole partition. The disk management gives me the same error message.

Any more leads?

 

[Rifter]

gparted from a linux live CD. If you cant re partition with that then the drive is probably toast and i would start running diagnostics on it.

 

[corkyg]

Agree with Ritterut. Disk Management is within Windows. You have to be outside of Windows to resolve this. A program on a bootable CD is needed, and Linux GParted is such. It's worth a shot.

 

[jodhas]

should have thought of this before.
Thanks for your guide guys.

Please recomend a nice drive diagnostic software.

Thanks.

 

[corkyg]

For Hitachi drives, the Drive Fitness Tes (DFT) is the best, and is a free and easy download to create bootable media.

http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/#DFT

 

[Rifter]

yeah DFT for hitachi is great, i have used that software in the past. do try Gparted first though you may still be able to save it.